Imagine getting this giant box of toys delivered by UPS!!  Heck, there’re so many gizmos and gadgets in there I don’t know where or what to begin with. The one thing that jumped out at me is the Crayola toothpaste!  At first I thought it was a box of Crayola markers because it’s the same size box, but whoa – I’m keeping these for myself!  The rest?  Maybe a giveaway…

This event was the Big Toy Book’s Sweet Suite which I posted about earlier this week – the one that showed me crashing a Goddess-built race car, cool little kids furniture – – you know, I have to post more pictures, now that I think of it because the sheer volume was overwhelming.

In stores now –  canned Goddess!  One variety only:  tough and salty.  Luckily there’s plenty of me to go around… This was from the Cans Get You Cooking booth at BlogHer2013 – the can unscrews with freebie coupons inside.  A cool idea; makes you really remember them.

And on a side note, practically every can came through the flood.  Yes, they had to be washed in soap/bleach water and the labels carefully sponged off, so put those cans on the bottom shelves in your basement stockpiles and sleep better at night.

Eat your hearts out, people! Seriously, I met up with Jill (after spending one full hour trying to find the underground parking lot at McCormick Place where my car was parked – they have way too many building there now – and it set me back $21).  I drove up to the Sheraton and got here about 7 (remember the time, it’s important and may result in a quiz later).  Jill had about 150 pounds of “stuff” sitting around here from a quick trip around the Exhibit Hall – I can’t wait until tomorrow for my share! There was a White Cloud party scheduled for the same time as the movie screening (Austenland). It featured the White Cloud princess in a dress made of toilet paper, fog drifting out of the rooms; I think it was a cocktail party of sorts.  Well, we headed over to the movie, which started15 minutes late.  When it was over, I headed back down to the self-parking section of the garage and pulled my ticket out and inserted it into the machine in the garage lobby:  $31!  Mind you, we’re talking less than three hours!  Then, when I got in the car and drove up to the gate, the machine tried to charge me another $33!  Total parking BS, as I see it.  But the movie was funny and the characters very likable.  Got a couple of t-shirts and a calendar.  Did you know movies now have color and sound (yes, it’s been a while).

So off to bed, etc. so I can up early tomorrow, park in the CLOSE LOT and, if required, make many trips to and from the garage with my “STUFF.”  ’cause Stuff is good.  and I have a large SUV…

Quick picture of some of the loot: Hidden Valley has a new line of dipping sauces – woman said to take all I wanted. Seriously? Lady, this is not something you say to an extreme couponer! Unfortunately, I was hampered by distance, since everything at BlogHer2013 is in a different location. I’ve spent most of the past two days walking and cabbing it – I have yet to even get my Expo badge for Exhibition Hall and it ends tomorrow. Sad.

Oh, here’s something funny: Muller yogurt was there, offering coupons for free yogurt. I only took a few (really!) because of all the cases currently residing in my refrigerator and freezer. Oh, and also because they expire this year. Seriously, dudes, give us some longer dates here, you’re killing me!

Dark picture, but if you want to know more, just ask.

First stop was a tour of Groupon headquarters – they’re in Chicago, you know! It’s a pretty weird place, a converted warehouse building (I think it used to be Monkey Wards). It’s a wear whatever you damned well please kind of office with lots of strange “things” around: Here I am with the cat

Here is Lauren, our new affiliate person. She was the one I browbeat into issuing the invites! She’s standing in this area with a fake bear, hollow tree trunk, etc. told you it was strange!

Here’s some annoying person who always seems to get in my pictures! Well, she’s kinda fun to have around, so I’ll keep her! She’s sitting on this swing set (a bunch of them around a fake tree).

Here’s the Groupon team responsible for finding and providing our great deals locally.

A few of them were able to take us out to lunch, where we ate and discussed what we like and what we dislike. Lots of changes ahead for Groupon – good ones! I might be offering some truly unique (read weird!) Groupons in the near future! hope, hope, hope!

Then on to the MomSelect.